King Cole Bar
This bar, deep inside the St. Regis on Fifth Avenue, is one of the few New York hotel bars whose standards didn't go to the dogs after the 1960s. It's also one…
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Farrell’s Bar & Grill
Farrell's opened in 1933 right after Prohibition took its final breath. Back then, it was a haven for the working class Irish in this neighborhood, and though it's had a…
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White Horse Tavern
The last bastion of plain, blue-collar drinking in the posh West Village, the White Horse—named after a once-popular brand of Scotch—has lived many lives over its 130-plus years. It has…
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Peter McManus Cafe
Perhaps because it’s not as bewhiskered as the other bars on this list (founded only in 1936!), the Chelsea bar doesn’t get as much attention as some. But it’s a…
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Pete’s Tavern
This Irving Place tavern vies with McSorley’s for the title of New York’s oldest continually operating bar. While McSorley’s easily beats it in terms of character, Pete’s has considerable charm.…
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Old Town Bar
Founded in the 1890s as a German drinking hall and currently under Irish ownership, the Old Town is nonetheless the most democratic of Gotham’s ancient taverns. Patrons range from twenty-…
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McSorley’s Old Ale House
Mc Sorley's is arguably New York’s most famous bar, and certainly its most celebrated. Rooted on E. 7th Street since before the Civil War, Lincoln visited it, John Sloan painted…
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Fraunces Tavern
This lower Manhattan landmark is actually a 1900 facsimile of the much-altered tavern founded by Samuel Fraunces in the 1760s. So you’re not exactly supping where General Washington supped. Still,…
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Ear Inn
This two-story, Revolutionary-era building has been host to a wide variety of drinking establishments over the centuries, including a speakeasy and an unnamed bar known only as The Green Door.…
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